Thank you for your comment. We appreciate you taking the time to engage seriously with the piece.

We are not entirely convinced by the comparison. Yes, there have long been female stereotypes in cinema: submissive women, ornamental roles, one-dimensional love interests. That is true. But cinema has also given us many strong, intelligent, capable female characters for decades, long before the current ideological moment. Princess Leia in Star Wars (1977), Ripley in Alien and Aliens, and Sarah Connor in The Terminator are obvious examples.

More importantly, our point is not simply about whether a gender was ever portrayed badly on screen. The real issue is institutional incentive. We do not believe films were historically selected for major awards, promoted, or culturally protected because they humiliated women or diminished female competence as part of an approved ideological framework. That is a different phenomenon.

What concerns us today is not the existence of flawed male characters, which has always been part of storytelling, but the repeated cultural reward for narratives that diminish men as a class, erase male-female cooperation, or treat male disposability as sophistication. That is what we are examining.

So while we understand the historical point you are making, we do not think it is fully parallel to what is happening now.